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Reuters reports: Marine Le Pen’s far-right National Rally (RN) party won the first round of France’s parliamentary elections on Sunday, exit polls showed, but the final result will depend on days of horsetrading before next week’s run-off. The RN was seen winning around 34% of the vote, exit polls from showed. That was ahead of leftist and centrist rivals, including …

USA Today reports: Tropical Storm Beryl formed Friday evening in the Atlantic east of the Windward Islands and could become Hurricane Beryl by Sunday as it moves westward, the National Hurricane Center said. It becomes the second named storm of the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season, formally turning into a tropical storm about 1,100 miles southeast of the Windward Islands at …

From the editorial board of the New York Times: Mr. Biden answered an urgent question on Thursday night. It was not the answer that he and his supporters were hoping for. But if the risk of a second Trump term is as great as he says it is — and we agree with him that the danger is enormous — …

CNN reports: CNN’s Thursday night debate between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump was watched by 47.9 million viewers on television, according to preliminary figures from Nielsen. CNN offered a live feed of the telecast to any network free of charge but with strict conditions over its presentation and branding. On television, CNN drew 8.7 million viewers on …

“Understand, it ain’t easy debating a pathological liar, which is what Joe Biden had to do last night. Donald Trump lied about everything, from his record to the direction he wants to take people in this country. “Hell, John, he even lied about saying Democrats want to kill babies after they’re born. I mean, come on! It’s nonsense! Frankly, I …

ABC News reports: A teenager accused of making a hit list and planning a mass killing at a high school near Cincinnati pleaded guilty Thursday to reduced charges of inducing panic. Prosecutors dropped a charge against the 14-year-old, leveled in February, of conspiracy to commit aggravated murder. He will be sentenced in July. Hamilton County Prosecutor Melissa Powers said the …

CNN Business reports: Walgreens is set to close a substantial number of its roughly 8,600 locations across the United States as the company looks to reset the struggling pharmaceutical chain’s business. The company didn’t announce a specific number of store closures, but it said Thursday that it is planning “significant” closures of underperforming stores across America as part of a …

North Carolina Newsline reports: North Carolina Senate on Wednesday overwhelmingly approved an amended version of House Bill 942, also known as the “Shalom Act,” that would establish a definition of anti-Semitism in state law. If the bill becomes law, North Carolina would, by reference, make the “Working Definition of Antisemitism Adopted by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) on May …

From yesterday’s report by Bloomberg Law: A document inadvertently uploaded to the U.S. Supreme Court’s website on Wednesday appears to indicate the court will send a case regarding emergency abortion care in Idaho back to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals rather than make a decision. Rather than rule on the merits, the unofficial opinion essentially says the court took …

The New York Times reports: The Supreme Court temporarily put on hold on Thursday an Environmental Protection Agency plan to curtail air pollution that drifts across state lines, dealing another blow to the Biden administration’s efforts to protect the environment. The ruling followed recent decisions chipping away at the agency’s authority to address climate change and water pollution. The ruling …

CNN reports: CNN’s debate will include some shifts in tradition, including two commercial breaks during the roughly 90-minute event, a first since the Commission on Presidential Debates took over the process more than 35 years ago. There will be no live audience this time, and the candidates’ microphones will be muted while the other is speaking. The podiums will also …

The New York Times reports: The Supreme Court limited the sweep of a federal law on Wednesday aimed at public corruption, ruling that it did not apply to gifts and payments meant to reward actions taken by state and local officials. The 6-to-3 ruling, which split along ideological lines, was the latest in a series of decisions cutting back federal …

The Daily Beast reports: Tesla was hit with two recalls for its Cybertruck on Tuesday, taking the total number of recalls on Elon Musk’s futuristic pet project to four. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said the truck’s front windshield wiper motor controller is at risk of failing due to excessive electrical current, increasing the risk of crashes due to …

The Guardian reports: Lawyers for Hunter Biden have filed a motion requesting a new trial, arguing that a Delaware court did not have jurisdiction over the case when it proceeded to trial. Biden’s lawyer Abbe Lowell, in a court filing on Monday, argued that his client’s “convictions should be vacated” because the judge overseeing the case lacked jurisdiction to hold …

The New York Times reports: For the first time in decades, a single television network will have sole discretion over the look, feel and cadence of a general-election presidential debate. Unlike in past years, when an independent, nonprofit commission oversaw the contests, CNN has picked the moderators, designed the set and will choose the camera angles that viewers see. Lest …

NBC News has today’s biggest ruling: The Supreme Court on Friday upheld a federal law that prohibits people subject to domestic violence restraining orders from having firearms, taking a step back from its recent endorsement of a broad right to possess a gun. The court ruled in favor of the Biden administration, which was defending the law — one of …

NPR reports: The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday ruled against a couple who challenged the constitutionality of a Trump-era tax provision, handing the government a victory in a case that had huge potential consequences for the federal budget. At issue was a tax enacted in 2017 to pay for President Trump’s massive corporate tax cut and to prevent off-shore tax …

The New York Times reports: More than two million people were under a tropical storm warning along the Texas Gulf Coast in the early hours of Thursday as Tropical Storm Alberto, the first named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season, neared the coast of Mexico, bringing intense rain and storm surges. The expansive storm system brought widespread coastal flooding in …

Axios reports: The Supreme Court is about to drop a string of blockbuster rulings, with abortion rights, gun rights and the Justice Department’s case against former President Trump all hanging in the balance. The court has 23 cases left to decide, and will likely hand down all of those opinions by the end of the month, give or take a …

USA Today reports: Tropical Storm Alberto, the first named storm of the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season, formed Wednesday in the Gulf of Mexico as parts of Texas braced for almost a foot of rain and parts of Mexico 20 inches. The National Hurricane Center issued a tropical storm warning for the Texas coast from San Luis Pass south to the …